Bruce Allen wrote:
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> On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> Jeff, thanks for the quick feedback.
> 
>> On the base point, libata has never enabled SMART on its own.  That's 
>> always up to the BIOS, etc.
> 
> OK, clear.
> 
>> It's possible that the recent addition of ACPI support will cause 
>> disks to be in different modes than previously expected.  ACPI 
>> supplies ATA taskfiles to be pushed to the disk, and who knows what's 
>> in there...
> 
> Is there a simple way I can have affected users test this?  Is there a 
> kernel boot flag or sysctl setting or something else they can use to 
> disable the ACPI stuff so see if the problem then goes away?

The 'noacpi' module option.

	Jeff



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